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Meaning of knotty

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  knotty
      adj 1: making great mental demands; hard to comprehend or solve
             or believe; "a baffling problem"; "I faced the knotty
             problem of what to have for breakfast"; "a problematic
             situation at home" [syn: {baffling}, {elusive}, {knotty},
             {problematic}, {problematical}, {tough}]
      2: used of old persons or old trees; covered with knobs or
         knots; "gnarled and knotted hands"; "a knobbed stick" [syn:
         {gnarled}, {gnarly}, {knotted}, {knotty}, {knobbed}]
      3: highly complex or intricate and occasionally devious; "the
         Byzantine tax structure"; "Byzantine methods for holding on
         to his chairmanship"; "convoluted legal language";
         "convoluted reasoning"; "the plot was too involved"; "a
         knotty problem"; "got his way by labyrinthine maneuvering";
         "Oh, what a tangled web we weave"- Sir Walter Scott;
         "tortuous legal procedures"; "tortuous negotiations lasting
         for months" [syn: {Byzantine}, {convoluted}, {involved},
         {knotty}, {tangled}, {tortuous}]
      4: tangled in knots or snarls; "a mass of knotted string";
         "snarled thread" [syn: {knotty}, {snarled}, {snarly}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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